Willie Nelson is obviously a country music legend and all-around cultural icon, but fans of his might not know that when he wasn’t busy perfecting his songwriting and guitar picking, he practiced a ...

Today we tend to call this type of music that blends these sorts of genres “Americana” or “roots music.” But that blending of genres is something that festival founder Willie Nelson — one of those ...

The Courant’s arts picks for Aug. 10-16 includes country artist Cody Jinks, comedians Jane Lynch and Kate Flannery and ...

Crosby thought of my dad as his “guitar guru,” and like many of the performers that night, he praised my father for his ...

The Grammy-nominated Bargatze is the top earning comedian in the world, according to Pollstar, and is among the top acts in ...

Having pioneered the Nashville sound and pushed country to a wider pop appeal, southern crooner Jim Reeves' life was tragically cut short.

On July 29, Dave Edmunds' wife, Cici Edmunds, took to Facebook to detail the moment her husband of 40 years “died" in her ...

The late singer-songwriter’s stunt would ultimately earn him the opportunity to quit his job and become a full-time musician ...

Born into a family of conjunto pioneers, Flaco Jimenez took his Hohner three-row button accordion from San Antonio to the ...

Today in Music History for Aug. 16: ...

While many modern Westerns blur the lines between good and bad, Hell or High Water, from director David Mackenzie and written ...

Seven songs that prove that 1970s country music was the best era of the boot-scooting, guitar-picking genre.